thanks for the diagram, that certainly helps. But I’m still stuck in the same place. My directory looks like yours (minus the unzipped openFramworks folder), and the alias has the same info as yours as well.

the Pi is connected to the mac with an ethernet to firebolt adaptor. it’s powered by a mini usb plug and it’s power light is lit up red. there’s an empty 16 SD card in there and a wifi dongle. Still my network preferences look like in my screenshot above, saying ‘Cable Unplugged’. Is there something wrong with the connection, or is the Error mounting /opt/raspberrypi/boot: image.img: No such file or directory unrelated?

does the raspberry already need to have an image on the card for it to be recognized on the network?

PS. @bakercp let me know if you’re on campus today and I could show you my setup.

made one or two steps forward. so now the raspberry has its card, is running and is recognized on the network. I can see it boots off my computer as all its lights are going on only if the ethernet is plugged in. But I still struggle with the concept of where it’s running.

the next step is (and I could see @abrahamavnisan had a similar problem, but couldn’t figure out how you guys handled it):

Put the card in a Pi, connect it to the hard-wired network, and turn
it on. If this is a fresh card, you’ll be dropped into raspi-config.

Enable ssh in the advanced options Do not “expand the filesystem.”

Finish raspi-config and reboot.

where will I be dropped into raspi-config? do I need to hook up the Pi to a screen, or should that happen in a vagrant ssh shell? Where do I actually access the Pi if it is running on the NFS boot?

If I vagrant ssh and then try to get to the Pi via ssh pi@10.0.0.101 I get this:
`ssh: connect to host 10.0.0.101 port 22: Connection refused``
I assume that this happens because I can’t follow Step 2 from the quote above and actually enable ssh on the Pi.

Update: got it running so far (it’s installing openFrameworks at the moment). I connected the Pi to a screen and keyboard and went through the config. To avoid this in the future: would there be a way to run through this from the mac/linux platform without having to connect the Pi to a screen?

Because it was a new card, I had to go through the raspi-config and enable ssh otherwise I got connection refused when I tried to ssh pi@10.0.0.101 from my mac. I was only able to go through that setup with a screen.

I just registered to leave this here for the next guy with similar problems. I was following both the guide in the repository and details in this forum and I kept having kernel panics and errors that didn’t let the RPI boot, like:

The problem was that I was connecting my Raspberry Pi to my mac via a Thunderbolt ethernet adapter. Every time that I unplugged the RPI to reboot it / change params / reflash the SD / etc., the Thunderbolt ethernet adapter detected that there was no device at the other end so it disconnected. When I plugged the DC connector again, the RPI booted faster than the Thunderbolt ethernet adapter, so it could still not find the boot image in my mac.